This collection provides maps of the land
cessions made by American Indian Nations during the interval between the formal
establishment of the United
States and 1894.

It consists of all sixty-seven maps from Indian
Land Cessions in the United States, compiled by Charles C. Royce and
presented as Part 2 of the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of
American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97.
The Report was printed by the Government Printing Office in 1899.

These maps identify, through assigned Royce
Area Numbers, the treaty or the other legislative mechanism that created that cession.
You should consult the Royce volume to identify the specific legal instrument
and its parameters. The Library of Congress has produced an electronic version of
the Royce compilation.

The National Park Service of the United
States Department of the Interior has a Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act web site that indexes these
cessions and Royce maps by State.